Chapter 36: A real slap in the face
In the first game of the Clippers, there were almost no empty seats at the "Staples Arena", and the first benefit that the two brothers brought to the Clippers was obvious, and that was the attendance of the game.
The first game of Ji Guoqiu and Ji Guoyi is not as exaggerated as the hundreds of millions of viewers in the first game of Space Yi, it is estimated that no one in China helped them cheat, and the numbers obtained by the United States are relatively real.
Compared with the previous games of the Clippers in Asia, there are suddenly nearly 10 million more fans watching this game today, and you can know with your toes that these fans are from China. Although I feel that it is much worse than the game between the Bucks and the Rockets, this has made Sterling, a guy who is full of money and copper in his head, happy to keep his mouth shut, and in his eyes, ratings are green dollars.
After the Clippers brought in James Posey this year, the salary of the whole team reached $62 million, which exceeded the salary cap of $6 million, which was absolutely impossible in previous years, and among the 30 teams in the league, the Clippers are the only team that has a "mid-class regulation" and does not use it, because they are afraid of paying the luxury tax.
The home team came out of the ceremony, and the two brothers did not play in the first and last. The first to appear was Kassel, and the last to appear was Mobley, Ji Guoqiu and Ji Guoyi were arranged to appear second and penultimate to the second, and the old Dunleavy This arrangement is very interesting.
"I know what that means, the coach wants us to fight for the real core position ourselves." Ji Guoqiu suddenly became smart at this time.
"Nonsense, the applause and cheers of the fans are not strong, which shows that they still don't recognize us, and they originally planned to be lazy today, but now it seems that it is not possible to play with their lives."
The Warriors' starting lineup for today: Byron Davis, Monta Ellis, Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, Andris Biedrins.
The two teams belong to the same Pacific Division, and the preseason and summer league have already played each other, and the other three teams in the Pacific Division are: Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and Satramento Kingdom.
There are many strong teams in the Pacific Division, the Suns have been winning more than 50 games in recent seasons, the Warriors have improved their record after the old Nelson coached last year, and last year they created the "Black Eight Miracle" that shocked the league, the Kings and Lakers have a poor record in the past two years, but no one thinks that they will continue to decline like this, and it is not easy for the Clippers to break through in these four teams.
Ji Guoqiu is in charge of jumping the ball, he and Biedrins have already played against each other, he didn't take advantage last time, but fortunately, the opponent's attack ability is not strong, and he didn't suffer.
The referee threw the basketball, and Ji Guoqiu's vertical bounce increased to 82cm during this time, kicked his legs hard, jumped high, and defeated the opponent with the advantage of half a finger, fighting for the team to take the lead.
The narrator of the game was the golden pair, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley.
Charles Barkley opened the game by saying, "One of my favorite NBA teams, the Golden State Warriors, it has so many talented and dynamic players, and Don Nelson is now back in charge for another year, what do you think of this team?" ”
"I agree that the Warriors were one of the most entertaining teams in the NBA last season, scoring points, having a lot of fun playing, and defensively they weren't like traditional defensive teams, but they could still cause a lot of problems for opponents, forcing them to make mistakes and allowing them to break fast on the road," Kenny Smith said.
The Clippers attacked for the first time, Kassel dribbled steadily and advanced, and his opponent bearded Davis was at the peak of the past two years, this bearded man's body was perfect, and he wanted to bully the old and frail Cassel as soon as he came up, and cut off the ball from the opponent's hand.
Kassel dribbled steadily, but he didn't dare to stick the ball too much, dodged the rush on one side of his body, and quickly passed the ball to Ji Guoqiu, who pulled it out to respond.
Ji Guoqiu received the ball, stepped on the three-point line and turned around, the old cat ran back on the bottom line, and the Warriors showed a gap behind him.
The regular season has just begun, and everyone still doesn't know that Ji Guoqiu's passing ability can be comparable to many point guards, and he can pass very penetrating passes in the high post, penetrating the opponent's entire defense line and going straight behind him.
The old cat Mobley subconsciously ran back, received Ji Guoqiu's ground-hitting pass in the low post, and took a step to quickly shoot before the Warriors could react, and the Clippers took the lead.
"Staples Field" immediately resounded with the cheers of Clippers fans, such a passing center is rare in the league, can greatly enhance the team's tactical changes, fans are not ignorant of anything.
Old Dunleavy is very satisfied, Ji Guoqiu's pass is beautiful, in the past, neither Carman nor Brand could pass this kind of ball, so they didn't have much passing and cutting cooperation, and the inside line mainly relied on low-post singles to attract the bag and pass the ball to the outside. Now with Ji Guoqiu, they can not only pass the basketball from the inside line, but also play all kinds of air cut combinations in the high position.
Old Nelson's eyes lit up, everyone wants such a big man, and he is no exception.
After the Warriors coached Nelson Sr. last season, the bombardment was not inferior to that of the Suns, and even Biedrins was asked by Nelson Sr. to shoot three-pointers.
The bearded man dribbled the ball, suddenly accelerated after the midfield, used his speed and body to brutally pass Kassel, and rushed directly to the basket guarded by Ji Guoqiu......
Ji Guoqiu didn't plan to make the opponent's offensive foul, calmly waited for the opponent to throw himself into the net, and secretly said in his heart: "If you don't jump, I won't jump." ”
Davis looked scary, but he didn't really rush to the basket, made a quick stop in the middle distance, and hit the Warriors' first opening shot.
Cassel really can't keep up with Davis's rhythm, and this ball can be seen that Nelson Sr. obviously intends to bully Cassel's old arms and legs.
On the Clippers' second offense, Kassel handed the basketball to Artest on the wing, who faced Stephen Jackson, nicknamed Martial Arts.
Stephen Jackson was teammates with Artest during his time with the Pacers, and he was also one of the protagonists in the sensational "Auburn Palace" incident. However, now Jackson and Atai have a bad relationship, and both he and O'Neal Jr. acted for Atai, and both of them were heavily punished by the alliance afterwards.
It stands to reason that having had this kind of tribulation experience should be an iron buddy, just like Ji Guoyi and Margety are not on the same team now, and the relationship is still very good. However, Jackson said in an interview that Atay did not thank the two at all afterwards, and then wanted the Pacers to make a transfer request, which made both of them dissatisfied and turned against Artest!
Artest uses a strong body frame to break through, his breakthrough does not look aesthetically appealing, purely using the body, using power to suppress the opponent to get a layup or dunk opportunity, although this attack is not technical, but simple and rough is very effective.
Jackson's body is also outstanding, but he is still much worse than Atay in terms of strength, one of them weighs 225 pounds, the other is 260 pounds, and the difference of more than 30 pounds is enough for Artest to rely on strength to solve the problem, Jackson was forced to the basket, and Atay used his strong body to press the opponent to make a layup.
Artest "Beast" is the nickname of this way, Artest before the age of thirty was like a pauper James in the second and third positions, the 07-09 season is his last peak, next summer is the player option in his contract, he can jump out of the contract in the summer of 08 to become a free agent, Artest will rely on this season's excellent performance Xiàn to fight for him the last big contract.
The Kings traded Artest without blinking an eye, just knowing that this guy would never stay with the Kings when his contract expired, Artest wanted to go to the big city, and they wouldn't get anything at that time.
Back to the game, the Warriors have always replaced defense with offense, and if they can't defend it, they just need to fight back.
Davis received the ball and raced to the Clippers' halfcourt, with Cassel following with a frown, a game that was particularly tough for the 38-year-old injury-ridden veteran.
The Warriors' offense is extremely fast, and if it's an interior like Bynum, I'm afraid the Warriors have completed the offense and he hasn't fallen into place yet.
Fortunately, Ji Guoqiu and Ji Guoqiu can not only jump, but also run, and they can be seamlessly embedded when they are put in the warrior or the sun.
Davis got rid of Kassel, only to find that Ji Guoyan was following him?
"What's going on?"
The bearded man wondered in his heart, and quickly stopped at the three-point line and passed the basketball to Ellis, who was following up on the weak side.
Monta Ellis played with the Warriors last season, his height of less than 190cm is much shorter to play the No. 2 position, but it fits the crazy tactical system of the old Nelson, fast speed, good ball control, accurate shooting, and the old Nelson doesn't care about defense or anything.
Mobley is not slow, but he can't face Ellis, the Clippers backcourt two are under a lot of pressure today, Ellis used his speed to get rid of Mobley and rush to the paint......
Ji Guoqiu has rushed to the basket in a straight line, although Ji Guoqiu on the other side has not looked at him, but he has been observing his basket area with telepathy in his heart, as long as Ji Guoqiu misses, he will help defend the past as soon as possible.
Ellis broke through to the basket, stepped into the reasonable collision zone, and jumped to the basket against Ji Guoqiu.
In the reasonable collision area, the defender does not jump, once there is physical contact with the offensive player, it is considered a foul, Ji Guoqiu saw the opponent jumping, and he also jumped and blocked.
Ellis wasn't stupid, he knew that he couldn't afford to force a layup, so he passed the ball back to Biderlins, who only needed to step forward to dunk and his assists were counted.
"I knew you were going to play this hand!" Ji Guoyan said in his heart.
The audience at the scene and in front of the TV didn't find out when he came to help? Biedrins jumped up and dunked, Ji Guoyi stretched out a pair of big hands to split his head and face and fanned it, his palm was accurately pressed on the basketball, and then pressed down, and the basketball was slapped down by him, but his palm castration did not decrease, and then slapped Biedrins in the face, only to hear the "snap", the fans couldn't help but cover their faces.
"This is a naked slap in the face!" The Chinese fans who were watching the game also felt that their faces were hot, and they all hurt Biderins' face......
Ji Guoyi's time was purely deliberate, and it was completely redundant to press down in the end, but the referee did not award him a foul, after all, he hit the basketball first, and then hit the face. This is the same as playing basketball first and then hitting the hand, "the ball and the hand are one", no, this should be "the ball and face are one"!
Biedrins didn't go up and fight with Ji Guoyi, although he wanted to do it very much, but Ji Guoyin directly beat him to the point that he was starry, and there was still liquid flowing out of his nose uncontrollably, and the nose itself and half of his face were even unconscious, how could he still have kung fu and Ji Guozhi to fight hard?
The game was suspended, the referee temporarily suspended the game, and there was a pool of blood on the floor, all of which flowed from Biedrins' nose, who was directly slapped to the floor by Ji Guosha, dizzy and painful, and couldn't get up.
Stephen Jackson wanted to come up to Ji Guosha's theory, but Artest stood in front of Ji Guosha for the first time and blocked the Warriors players.
If it weren't for the big Ben, Artest would still be very kind.